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  2. Giant star - Wikipedia

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    If the star's mass, when on the main sequence, was below approximately 0.4 M ☉, it will never reach the central temperatures necessary to fuse helium. [7], p. 169. It will therefore remain a hydrogen-fusing red giant until it runs out of hydrogen, at which point it will become a helium white dwarf. [6], § 4.1, 6.1.

  3. Rifampicin - Wikipedia

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    Rifampicin, also known as rifampin, is an ansamycin antibiotic used to treat several types of bacterial infections, including tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium avium complex, leprosy, and Legionnaires' disease. [3]

  4. List of largest stars - Wikipedia

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    45.1 ± 0.1 [99] AD Fourteenth brightest star in the night sky. Arcturus (α Boötis) 25.4 ± 0.2 [100] AD This is the nearest red giant to the Earth, and the fourth brightest star in the night sky. Pollux (β Geminorum) 9.06 ± 0.03 [95] AD The nearest giant star to the Earth. Spica (α Virginis A) 7.47 ± 0.54 [101]

  5. Category:Giant stars - Wikipedia

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    About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... Normal giant stars are stars of ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  6. List of nearest giant stars - Wikipedia

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    36.7 ± 0.2 [1] K1.5 III Fe−0.5 [5] 25.4 ± 0.2 [6] 1.08 ± 0.06 [6]-0.05 [4] Fourth-brightest star in the night sky, and the nearest red giant to Earth. Deneb Algedi (Delta Capricorni) 38.70 ± 0.09 [1] A7m III [7] 1.91 [8] 2 [8] 2.91 [7] The nearest white giant. Capella A 42.919 ± 0.049 [9] G8III [9] 11.98 ± 0.57 [9] 2.569 ± 0.007 [9] 0. ...

  7. Rifamycin - Wikipedia

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    The rifamycin group includes the classic rifamycin drugs as well as the rifamycin derivatives rifampicin (or rifampin), rifabutin, rifapentine, rifalazil and rifaximin. Rifamycin, sold under the trade name Aemcolo, is approved in the United States for treatment of travelers' diarrhea in some circumstances. [1] [2] [3]

  8. Alpha Lupi - Wikipedia

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    Alpha Lupi is a giant star with a stellar classification of B1.5 III. [4] It has about ten times the mass of the Sun [ 7 ] yet is radiating 18,000 times the Sun's luminosity. The outer atmosphere has an effective temperature of 24,550 K, [ 8 ] which gives it the blue-white glow of a B-type star .

  9. Gashadokuro - Wikipedia

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    The Gashadokuro is a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton made of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield or of starvation/famine (while the corpse becomes a gashadokuro, the spirit becomes a separate yōkai, known as hidarugami.), and is 10 or more meters tall. Only the eyes protrude, and some sources describe them as ...